Robin Morgan Quotes

• White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Environment, Life

  Tags in Responsible

• We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Until, Marriage, Destroy

• We are the women men warned us about.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Men

• There’s something contagious about demanding freedom.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Something

• The Roman Catholic church… carries the immense power of very directly affecting women’s lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Women

• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

  Robin Morgan

  Tags in Latter, Oppression

• Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Attempt, Impossible

• Let’s put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men’s liberation groups.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Men

• Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Best

• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Knowledge, Power

  Tags in Humility, Information

• It isn’t until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Own, Until, Freedom

• In the long run, Women’s Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it’s going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Men

• I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel

• I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Affection, Own, Time, Desire

• I am an artist and a political being as well.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist

• Don’t accept rides from strange men – and remember that all men are strange as hell.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accept, Strange, Men

• Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• Friendship is mutual backmail elevated to the level of love.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

Robin Morgan (20)

Birth:	29th January, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Journalist, Poet

About

Robin Morgan is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement.

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